In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in which the civil rights activist responded to a group of local clergymen who had criticized him for leading street protests; King defended his tactics, writing, “Injustice anywhere…
leading street protests; King defended his tactics, writing, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”In 1789, President-elect George Washington left Mount Vernon, Virginia, for his inauguration in New York.ASSOCIATED PRESSIn 1945, In his first speech to Congress, President Harry S. Truman pledged to carry out the war and peace policies of his late predecessor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In 2003, Michael Jordan played his last NBA game with the Washington Wizards, who lost to the Philadelphia 76ers, 107-87.In 2007, in one of America’s worst school attacks, a college senior killed 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech before taking his own life.In 2010, the U.S government accused Wall Street’s most powerful firm of fraud, saying Goldman Sachs & Co.
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